Inspector John Appleby
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Inspector John Appleby is a fictional British detective and the central sleuth in Michael Innes’s series of erudite, often humorous crime novels.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Inspector John Appleby canonical | 2 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T20681702 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inspector John Appleby Context triple: [Michael Innes, notableCharacter, Inspector John Appleby]
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A.
Inspector Charlesworth
Inspector Charlesworth is a fictional detective character who investigates a murder in Christianna Brand’s classic mystery novel "Death in High Heels."
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B.
Detective Inspector Gaskill
Detective Inspector Gaskill is a police investigator character in the stage adaptation of "The Girl on the Train," responsible for probing the central mystery of the story.
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C.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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D.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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E.
Inspector Gregson
Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Inspector John Appleby Target entity description: Inspector John Appleby is a fictional British detective and the central sleuth in Michael Innes’s series of erudite, often humorous crime novels.
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A.
Inspector Charlesworth
Inspector Charlesworth is a fictional detective character who investigates a murder in Christianna Brand’s classic mystery novel "Death in High Heels."
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B.
Detective Inspector Gaskill
Detective Inspector Gaskill is a police investigator character in the stage adaptation of "The Girl on the Train," responsible for probing the central mystery of the story.
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C.
Inspector Athelney Jones
Inspector Athelney Jones is a bumbling yet self-assured Scotland Yard detective who appears as a foil to Sherlock Holmes in Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel "The Sign of Four."
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D.
Inspector Brackenreid
Inspector Brackenreid is a gruff but fair Victorian-era police inspector and a key supporting character in the Canadian detective series "Murdoch Mysteries."
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E.
Inspector Gregson
Inspector Gregson is a Scotland Yard detective in Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, often portrayed as competent but outshone by Holmes’s superior deductive abilities.
- F. None of above. chosen
Referenced by (2)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.